Step 01
InstantFrame
Define the strategic question. Set the boundary, what is in scope, what is adjacent, what is out. Every downstream figure traces to this definition.
- Strategic scope
- Definition memo
- Adjacent-market map
MeridianConsensus
Decision-grade Market IntelligenceAny market · any geography
Strategic intelligence for decision-makers,
on any market, any geography.
Not a research report. A strategic intelligence platform: search any market to open a 30-to-75-chapter study, audit every claim against the underlying sources, or commission new intelligence on demand, all tracked from a live workspace built for boardroom-grade decision-making.
What's inside57 pages · institutional
- Executive brief
- Market sizing · 2020 – Q1 2026 history + 2026–2036 forecast
- Meridian reconciliation vs peer estimates
- Segmentation · product, application, channel, end-user
- 10-region analysis with country-level breakdowns
- Competitive landscape + ranked share + Porter Five Forces
- Value-chain economics
- PESTLE and bull/base/bear scenarios
- Patent landscape and regulatory watch
- Sample investment-thesis chapter
- Committee sign-off memo
- Full source index
Free preview, hand-reviewed by the Meridian Consensus analyst team and delivered within one business day. The full commissioned report generates instantly. No credit card required.
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Role-tested
Insights for every role.
Nine workflows we built the product around. Each gets the depth they need, the analyst running diligence, the CFO building the model, the CEO walking to the board.
Featured01
For M&A committee reviews
Corporate Development
Pressure-test acquisition targets with committee-grade market sizing and peer variance analysis. Every figure cites a source; every source clears the ensemble.
±2.1pp
Avg. estimate variance
02
For board-level planning
Strategy Office
Annual plans with sourced numbers every executive can cite.
30 ch.
Depth per report
03
For market-sizing diligence
Venture Capital
Diligence a market faster than the data room closes.
Instant
On-demand access
04
For portfolio benchmarking
Private Equity
Portfolio-company benchmarks with real financials and independent reconciliation.
8 firms
Cross-referenced
05
For client-facing engagements
Management Consulting
White-label research with auditable, transparent methodology.
White label
PDF / PPTX / Excel
06
For pitch books & fairness opinions
Investment Banking
Comparable-set depth for pitch decks, fairness opinions, and diligence.
10–15
Company profiles
07
For scenario & valuation models
CFO & Finance
Scenario modelling, valuation comparables, and sensitivity analysis with ranges.
3 cases
Bull · base · bear
08
For ICP & pricing strategy
Product & Marketing
Ground ICP sizing, segment shares, and pricing with defensible data.
20+
Countries per market
09
For coverage notes & consensus
Equity Research
Market context for coverage notes, with independent reconciliation already pre-computed.
17-yr
Timeline 2019–2036
The product · live
Not a PDF, an interactive dashboard.
Every commissioned study ships as a working dashboard: tab-switchable views across size, competition, regions and segmentation, hoverable bars, live KPIs, and a committee-signed audit trail on every figure. The specimen below is a taste; real reports go deeper.
Interactive dashboard · live
Electric-vehicle batteries · specimen
Overview
2025 size · 2026–2036 forecast · committee-signed
$45B (COVID baseline)
2019$54B
2020$66B
2021$80B
2022$97B
2023$118B
2024$142B
2025$370B forecast
2030$980B forecast
2036Revenue trajectory (historical 2020 – Q1 2026 · forecast 2026–2036)
Live across Meridian
How we work.
Five phases. One proprietary methodology. Every figure committee-reviewed before access, and every thesis dated for full traceability.
Step 02
ParallelIntelligence
Synthesize the evidence base. Institutional archives, proprietary datasets, and independent reconciliation converge into a unified picture.
- Evidence base
- Independent reconciliation
- Proprietary datasets
Step 03
ParallelStress-test
Every figure pressure-tested against multiple independent lenses. Ensemble scoring surfaces disagreements before they surface in your boardroom.
- Ensemble score
- Variance bands
- Flags surfaced
Step 04
On-demandCommittee
Adversarial review by the research committee. Plausibility, internal consistency, and thesis quality each receive sign-off before anything publishes.
- Committee sign-off
- Thesis validation
- Research review
Step 05
InstantAccess
Commissioned output is accessible instantly. Quarterly refresh cadence with event-triggered revisions. Every diff disclosed against the prior thesis.
- Commissioned report
- Quarterly refresh
- Revision log
Access
Instant
On demand · vs 6–8 weeks at independent analyst benchmarks
Cadence
Quarterly
Refresh + event-triggered revisions
Live coverage
The markets we're watching.
Selected signals from current coverage. Largest markets, fastest growth, and the freshest committee-signed sizings on the platform.
Largest markets
Market sizeFastest-growing
10-yr CAGRMost recently sized
Vintage- Oral Care Market$47.2BJun 2026
- Chemical Distribution Market$295.3BJun 2026
- South Korea Digital Cognitive Assessment and Digital Therapeutics Market$162.3BJun 2026
- Japan Digital Cognitive Assessment and Digital Therapeutics Market$453.0BJun 2026
- United States Digital Cognitive Assessment and Digital Therapeutics Market$4.5TJun 2026
Coverage
Any market.
Any geography.
Meridian commissions research on any market in the world, in any industry, with the same methodology and the same committee review. The sectors below are representative verticals where commissioned studies are already in the library; coverage is not limited to them.
Browse the catalogue · by company
The operators behind every market.
Most-tracked names across the catalogue. Click any operator for revenue context, tier classification, and the markets it competes in. See the full A–Z directory →
Capabilities
Capabilities, not slogans.
Four canonical engagement archetypes, disclosed by approach, deliverables, and what you walk away with. Specific past references are held under NDA; the methodology is not. Reference engagements available under mutual confidentiality.
Archetypes shown
4
Representative, not exhaustive
Sectors fitted
4
Cyber · Health · Mobility · Digital-infra
Typical depth
30 ch
Per commissioned study
Typical access
3–10 days
Bespoke; retainers are ongoing
Research library
Perspectives & briefings.
Structured analysis on market structure, methodology, and research economics from the Meridian research team.
Advisory
Extensive Senior Analyst Support.
We are a research platform, not a document factory. Every commissioned study comes with an ongoing written relationship, unlimited questions, quarterly refreshes, and a dedicated research-support desk. Asynchronous by design, sourced by default.
Asynchronous
Written answers across time zones. No calendar tetris, no call-fatigue.
Citable
Every response sourced. Forwardable to committees. Archived, not ephemeral.
Team-wide
One inbox, searchable archive, every seat on your team sees the thread.
On top of every report
Five new chapter add-ons. An always-on intel feed.
Layers are paid add-on chapters that bolt onto any report — patent landscape, M&A deal flow, pricing benchmark, channel map, talent landscape. Watchlists are a recurring intel feed on any industry you track. Both ship on the same evidence standards as the core report.
Attachable Layers · from $79 (free quota per plan)
Five depth modules that ship as additional chapters.
$79
Patent Landscape
IP map for the market — top assignees, citation density, white-space areas.
$79
Pricing Benchmark
Pricing-model classification, anchor price ranges, packaging tiers.
Model Context Protocol · v1.0
Built for the way buyers now research markets — through their AI assistant.
Install Meridian as an MCP server in Claude, Cursor, Claude Desktop, or any Model Context Protocol-compatible AI tool. Ask any market question in natural language; get a committee-reviewed answer with a Meridian citation back. No API key, no copy-paste from a 200-page PDF.
Listed on the official MCP Registry · 7 read-only tools · streamable HTTP
Install in Claude Code
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https://www.meridianHow we work
Four commitments.
No fine print.
Every report published under the Meridian Consensus masthead carries the same four commitments. These are not marketing claims, they are operational guarantees baked into the research pipeline.
Commitment
Every number sourced.
No claim in any Meridian report is unsourced. Where a figure comes from, institutional archive, proprietary dataset, peer research, or internal model, is recorded alongside the number itself. Clients can follow every thread back to evidence.
Commitment
Every estimate cross-validated.
Market-size estimates run through our proprietary ensemble and are explicitly compared against independent analyst benchmarks. Where we differ, we show it. Where we converge, we show that too. Readers see the dispersion, not a false point estimate.
Commitment
Every report committee-reviewed.
Before publication, every report passes through our research committee: adversarial review, plausibility testing, thesis sign-off. Critiques ship alongside the report, unedited. Clients read the objections, not just the conclusion.
Commitment
Every report alive.
Reports refresh on a quarterly cadence, with event-triggered revisions when material developments surface. Clients see what changed and why. Traditional research ships a static document stale on arrival; ours stays current.
The Meridian Consensus Digest
Weekly research digest.
A structured summary of the weekly published research, new commissioned studies, thesis revisions, and independent reconciliation updates. Published every Monday. Signed by the Meridian research team. No sales emails.
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Commission your own research
Commission a market we haven't yet covered.
Same proprietary methodology as the coverage above. Accessible instantly on demand. From $799. See pricing →
Want to read one first? Open a specimen report — Specialist (single-market) and Industry Overview (basket) shapes are both free to read end-to-end, no paywall.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions.
The questions buyers ask most, with answers that do not dodge.
Every Meridian report passes through the proprietary five-stage research process and adversarial committee review before publication. Figures are reconstructed from at least three independent evidence classes; where uncertainty exists, the range is disclosed rather than collapsed into a false point estimate. Committee sign-off is required before any figure is published.
Any market, in any industry, in any geography, globally. Coverage is not a fixed catalogue. The representative verticals (healthcare, information & communications, semiconductors, energy & power, chemicals & materials, automotive, aerospace & defence, transport & logistics, industrial machinery, packaging, consumer goods, food & beverages, agriculture) are where commissioned studies are already in the library. Niche, emerging, and cross-border markets run against the same methodology; where public evidence is thin, the confidence band is disclosed rather than hidden.
Three things. First, every figure is traced to evidence, see the methodology for the five-stage research process. Second, estimates are explicitly compared against independent benchmarks; where we differ, we show it. Third, reports ship with committee objections included alongside the thesis, not edited out. Our research standards document the full process.
Four tiers. Single report is $799 one-time, one market, 30 chapters. Industry pack is $1,999 for five reports in one industry vertical. Industry pack 10 is $2,999 for ten reports in one vertical (best per-report price at ~$300). Industry unlimited is $8,999 for unlimited reports in one vertical, with five years of free updates and Senior Analyst Support included. All tiers include PDF + PPTX export and committee-reviewed refresh when material developments surface. See the full comparison on the pricing page.
Yes. Every report exports to PDF (print-ready, institutionally typeset), PPTX (board-deck ready), and Excel (structured data). Enterprise tiers on the pricing page receive API access to pull structured data directly into internal systems.
Reports are living documents. The research team refreshes coverage on a quarterly cadence, with event-triggered revisions when material developments enter the pipeline. Clients see what changed and why, every time. See the refresh cadence for details.
Available as a retained-advisory engagement. A Senior Analyst of record runs the relationship, with quarterly thesis reviews delivered as written memos and unlimited in-scope research requests answered through the same one-business-day written channel as commissioned reports. Standard scope covers a single market or vertical; multi-vertical and firm-wide retainers are scoped on a custom basis. Every memo is sourced and committee-reviewed, every refresh ships with a written diff, and the archive stays searchable across your team. Scope a retainer through the analyst team.
Read before you buy. Every Meridian report preview is free to read in full, the methodology and a complete specimen report are open, and you commission only after reading what defines the deliverable. Commissioned reports are final on delivery; the analyst team reviews factual or scope failures case-by-case under the preview-first policy.